/standup

Two failure modes make long agent sessions expensive: a wall of text, and a rabbit hole where the original focus quietly got diverted six times. This skill answers one question in under a screen — what did I leave open, what is about to rot, and is the plan still right?

Status: partial. The deterministic half is built; the collector is partially built. triage.py (ranking, tiering, suppression, parking, rendering) is implemented and pinned by test/gh77-standup-triage.sh (92 assertions). collect.sh — currently implements lenses 2, 3, and 7. The remaining offline lenses and network-dependent lenses are not yet written, so this skill cannot run completely end-to-end today. collect.sh requires jq in addition to git and python3; without it every lens degrades to D5 and the collector exits 3 rather than emitting nothing. Design and remaining work: PROJECT/3-COMPLETED/GH-77-STANDUP-SESSION-TRIAGE.md · #77.

The division of labour, and why it is drawn here

Everything mechanical lives in triage.py. This file chooses only two things: the what phrasing of each item, and one optional clause appended to a fixed verdict sentence. Nothing else is model-authored.

That line is not stylistic. The PRD for this skill went four review rounds across two independent models and escalated at the cap with a flat finding rate — 11 → 13 → 10 → 10. A converging review goes 11 → 5 → 2. It stayed flat because a state machine was being specified in prose, where every gap needs a human reader to find it. Four separate times, a fix faithful to a finding re-broke the same property through a new route. triage.py exists so those properties are asserted by a test run instead of argued in Markdown.

Invariants — these are enforced in code, not by instruction

• A tier-1–3 item is never silent. It is rendered, or counted as K critical beyond cap with a --page escape hatch. Never suppressed, never parked, never merely absent.
• Writes stay inside PARKED/. Session state lives at PARKED/.standup-session-<id>.json, not under .git/ — .git is a file in a linked worktree, and this repo uses them.
• General PARKED notes remain human intake. Lens 8 parses only lines with its explicit — check: machine field; Markdown checklists and other agent observations in root PARKED/ do not become standup records. Triage may promote those notes under PARKED/README.md.
• A park file is never itself emitted as an item. Untracked paths under PARKED/ are excluded; a modified tracked one still surfaces, because it cannot loop.
• close is never executed. Only a park record's read-only check probe runs during collection.
• An unchanged rerun writes nothing — no new park file, no touch.
• Output is capped at 15 rendered lines, enumerated: 1 opening + 1 heading + ≤7 items + ≤1 notices + 1 heading + ≤4 body.

Usage

skills/1-hourly/standup/collect.sh > /tmp/lenses.json   # Partially built (lenses 2, 3, 7 only)
python3 skills/1-hourly/standup/triage.py --lenses /tmp/lenses.json --dry-run
python3 skills/1-hourly/standup/triage.py --lenses /tmp/lenses.json --apply --session-state PARKED/.standup-session-$$.json
python3 skills/1-hourly/standup/triage.py --lenses /tmp/lenses.json --dry-run --page 2   # beyond the cap

Exit 0 clean · 2 usage or a contract violation · 3 one or more lenses degraded.

Verdict codes are a finite set — no-contradiction, ledger-behind, release-overdue, insufficient-evidence — chosen with --verdict; --verdict-clause adds at most one newline-free clause of ≤120 characters. An unbounded clause is a wall of text with extra steps, so it is refused.

Reporting the result

Print triage.py's output as-is. Do not summarise it, do not add a preamble, and do not narrate what you did to produce it — narration of the agent's own recent work is the single most common wall-of-text source and is the thing this skill exists to remove.

If a tier-1–3 item appears, say so in your first sentence. If K is non-zero, name the --page command; the operator must be able to reach every critical item.

Degrading

Say which lens was unavailable and what it costs the verdict. gh missing means the PR and issue-state lenses did not run — report that, never an implied clean sweep. A skill that degrades quietly reports a sweep it never performed, which is the defect class this repo has spent the month removing.